Social Construct Of Social Cognitive Theory

Role of the teacher

I believe the teacher in the classroom is supposed to help guide students through their learning experiences and ensure that when obstacles arise that the student has a way to surpass it so they can refocus their attention on learning. We see this in the social cognitive theory by having teachers constantly evaluating how different aspects of reciprocal determinism might be interacting with one another for each of their students. By understanding what is going on with their students and how that impacts all the other areas that make up learning the teacher can decide where to take students next on their educational journey or what issues need to be addressed to help easy the students frustrations when problems arise. For

They can use this construct to help reinforce the learning of a particular topic. For example, a student seems very interested in the violin. They read about it and even talk to some of their friends who are in the school's orchestra about the instrument, but does not play it. The teacher notices the students interest and encourages them to take lessons at the school. This example shows how the teacher recognized that the student’s cognition was revolving around their interest in the violin and their behavior showed they socialized with others who were also interested in the violin, but they were not in the kind of environment where they could actually play the instrument. Maybe the student needed a little encouragement to join the orchestra, but the teacher encouraging the student to add that last aspect guided the student in a direction where they could fully learn about something that peaked their

Social cognitive theorist value students having high self-efficacy and the ability to self-regulate their learning. This gives students the sense that learning is personal and they have the ability to control how much they know about a topic. For example, a teacher give the assignment that students must write a speech about their favorite thing that will be presented to the class. One student really loves monkeys so they decided to research and write about monkeys at the zoo. The student is confident they will have good information about the topic and can deliver a speech well on the account they have given a presentation before this class. While the student could not pick the kind of assignment they were completing they did get to decided what the topic was and how to structure the speech. This was a boost to their self efficacy allowing them to tackle a fairly unfamiliar assignment since their knowledge of the topic was so